Category: Environmental Education

Originally posted on December 9, 2014 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Image: Tama Matsuoka Wong www.meadowsandmore.com In the previous post, I shared a bit about Tama Matsuoka Wong, author of Foraged Flavor, who harvests plants others call “weeds” for use in a high-end restaurant. She runs Meadows…

Originally posted on August 23, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler Connecting school with nature and town has big results In her desk’s side drawer, Principal Dana McCauley keeps a pair of sneakers, an old tee-shirt and jeans. She has to be prepared. At any…

Originally posted on November 25, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler It started with a question. One of Laurette Rogers’s fourth-graders asked how they could save endangered species. Rogers knew she needed a real answer, so she and her students started researching. They teamed…

Originally posted November 5, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler David Sobel keeps a thick folder of inspirational projects in place in schools around the country. As an educational writer, Senior faculty in the Antioch University New England Education Department and director for the Center for Place-based Eduction,…